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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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New York City
New York
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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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